Tag: Attack Ads

Bring out the shovels, it's going to take a lot of digging to get out of this mud. The campaigns of Republican Rep. Marilyn Musgrave and her challenger Democrat Betsy Markey both released television ads Tuesday that are highly critical of one another. Musgrave's ad calls Markey corrupt while Markey's ad calls Musgrave a liar.

The National Rifle Association began airing a series of TV and radio ads in Colorado on Monday that blast Barack Obama on a variety of "radical" positions the gun-rights group say will take away "our way of life."

Going negative against political opponents is second nature to Republican U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave.

The day after U.S. Interior Department officials detailed for Congress the sordid sex and drug scandal in its Denver oil royalty office, a spokesman for a group trying to roll back oil and gas tax subsidies in Colorado said public outrage can only help Amendment 58.

The Colorado Independent's chief political reporter, Jason Kosena, joined political consultant Eric Sonderman and Westword media critic Michael Roberts to discuss the the current crop of political ads on KBDI's Studio 12, the hour-long public affairs roundtable and call-in show, Wednesday night.

I know Marilyn Musgrave loves nicknames. Back in 2002 she started calling the candidate I worked for Stan “Taxunaka.” Now she’s calling Betsy Markey “Millionaire Markey.” Hmm. Politically speaking, negative nicknames work when they actually relate to something, but this one’s kinda out of left field.

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In this highly charged political season, truth is "in the eye of the beholder," muddying efforts by journalists to fact-check candidates' claims, a media expert told the Christian Science Monitor in its Thursday edition.

A pro-choice group plans to spend millions of dollars in Colorado and other swing states in October airing an ad that asks how long women should spend in jail if they have abortions after Roe v. Wade is overturned, as John McCain supports.

Greg Sargent at TPM has a first look at a mailer a labor coalition has set to unleash next week on 1.5 million swing-state households to win back blue collar Democrats who have voted Republican in recent elections.

The Colorado Conservation Voters Campaign Fund unveiled a new television campaign Monday to counter a Western Skies Coalition ad that inaccurately portrayed State Sen....